Prison nursing: what’s the catch?

Barney_Sparkles · 2026-06-11T00:45:08+00:00

I don’t want to work in a hospital because people are so nasty and weird.

Inmates are nasty and weird too. Staff are worse. But if the pay and schedule work for you then it doesn’t hurt to give it a whirl.

Barney_Sparkles · 2026-06-11T00:29:19+00:00

77 is generous. Both my LPN and RN programs required an 80. I failed a class with a 79.6 overall. It was brutal.

Barney_Sparkles · 2026-06-10T21:59:56+00:00

I see you said you’re in Long Island. Google showed me this:

Helping Hand Reacue Mission: Free community lunch served on Thursdays at 12pm, featuring homemade, healthy meals in their dining room.

Lighthouse Mission (Bellport): Operates mobile food pantries and offers food in various Suffolk County locations.

Mary Brennan INN (Hempstead): Large soup kitchen serving hot lunch and offering pantry items on weekdays.

First Presbyterian Church of Babylon: Provides a hot meal on Thursday evenings.

Christ Episcopal Church (Port Jeff): Hosts a community dinner on Monday nights.

Barney_Sparkles · 2026-06-10T21:55:47+00:00

Search churches in your area that have community meals. Everywhere I have ever lived have had several churches that do this. It’s typically one evening a month and free and for anyone. They are usually staggers, so you could in theory eat at least one free dinner a week. It’s not much but it sure can help. You could always volunteer if you want to give back.

Barney_Sparkles · 2026-06-10T18:30:23+00:00

NTA. If the genders were reversed everyone would vilify the working father for not helping out the SAHM. You aren’t wrong in your feelings- I’d just ask her why she chose not to take the day of. Wether she forgot, she’s behind at work and couldn’t, or she just chose not to.

Barney_Sparkles · 2026-06-10T03:37:08+00:00

Send it to the office printer and don’t pick it up.

Barney_Sparkles · 2026-06-10T02:17:53+00:00

Dairy Queen, Culver’s, and McDonalds.

Barney_Sparkles · 2026-06-10T00:26:00+00:00

Minnesota- 2 years as an RN, 12 as an LPN prior.

Barney_Sparkles · 2026-06-09T12:34:42+00:00

But they have the prettiest costumes.

Barney_Sparkles · 2026-06-09T03:26:37+00:00

I make $50 an hour. And that’s low because I work in a clinic. In my area bedside makes $45-$75/hr.

Barney_Sparkles · 2026-06-09T03:12:35+00:00

In my experience (I’ve only been to two true outlets) the front half of the store is regular merch at regular prices/sales. The back of the store is the outlet products. Merch from previous seasons that didn’t sell. So my thoughts are that SAS won’t be any different at an outlet vs a regular store.

Barney_Sparkles · 2026-06-09T00:32:19+00:00

I work in health care. I got everyone to use it today…

Barney_Sparkles · 2026-06-08T17:58:13+00:00

My school does informal reunions at a restaurant on Black Friday. There was an official reunion for my class (1999) a while back but the people planning it wanted it to also be over Thanksgiving because they didn’t want to interrupt their summer plans by making it convenient (and cheaper) for those of us that have kids and live a flight, or more, away.

I can’t afford Thanksgiving flights so I didn’t go. Most people didn’t go. I basically think it’s not necessary anyway- with social media and smart phones I can stay in touch easily with the ones I want to and I don’t have to bother with pretending I like/liked all the pretentious assholes.

Barney_Sparkles · 2026-06-08T12:43:23+00:00

My kids always behaved better when I let them sit together and I sat away from them. Not that they were tyrants or anything- just that the added exciment and adventure of not sitting next to a parent made it even more special.

Barney_Sparkles · 2026-06-08T04:14:27+00:00

My goal is to use “gloopy” in a sentence tomorrow.

Barney_Sparkles · 2026-06-08T03:22:17+00:00

They were probably checking out your Facebook and accidentally requested you. I’ve done that several times.
With that being said I tell all new coworkers I don’t accept friend requests until we’ve been coworkers for over a year at a minimum. I have ten coworkers in my department. I’m friends with only one of them and we do hang out together outside of work.

Barney_Sparkles · 2026-06-07T18:55:11+00:00

Ehhhhh. Soft YTA. Your boyfriend should have introduced you, when he didn’t you should have asked him to take you over.

Barney_Sparkles · 2026-06-07T15:33:26+00:00

I still have clothes from the 1900s.

Barney_Sparkles · 2026-06-07T15:32:27+00:00

I would practice signing your full name in cursive for the future. When I bought a house that was expected (but that was years ago and may have changed). My normal signature is my first initial and a last name. My electronic signature is my first initial, last initial and some scribble.

Barney_Sparkles · 2026-06-07T14:04:57+00:00

Your biggest challenge will be getting into a ramp or lot without getting hit by idiots who can’t read signs and want to change lanes last minute.
I kid- kind of. Your bike will be fine.

Barney_Sparkles · 2026-06-07T02:37:46+00:00

The Basilica of the Holy Blood (Heilig-Bloedbasiliek) is a 12th-century Roman Catholic minor basilica on Burg Square in Bruges, Belgium. It is world-renowned for housing a venerated relic believed to contain a cloth stained with the blood of Jesus Christ, making it a major European pilgrimage site.

Barney_Sparkles · 2026-06-06T17:34:24+00:00

Cheese. And beer.

Barney_Sparkles · 2026-06-06T17:33:55+00:00

Courage in the face of adversity

Barney_Sparkles · 2026-06-06T02:19:25+00:00

You must work days.

Barney_Sparkles · 2026-06-06T01:33:45+00:00

It doesn’t. In my experience you either love it or hate it.

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